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The US attorney general said Sunday that it would be “a heavy lift” for Donald Trump to find a legal way to run for a third term as president.<\/p>\n
“I wish we could have him for 20 years as our president,” Pam Bondi told Fox News Sunday, “but I think he’s going to be finished, probably, after this term.”<\/p>\n
The US Constitution was amended in 1947 to set a two-year limit on the presidency, not long after Franklin Roosevelt died near the start of his fourth term in the White House.<\/p>\n
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But constitutional amendments require approval by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, as well as ratification by three-quarters of the 50 states, which political analysts say is extremely unlikely.<\/p>\n
“That’s really the only way to do it,” Bondi said. “It’d be a heavy lift.”<\/p>\n
Trump’s early talk of seeking a third term struck many as fanciful, but on March 31 the 78-year-old president told NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility.<\/p>\n
He said there were “methods” that would allow it to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The remarks by Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, about the difficulty of a legal third term appear to align with the views of most constitutional scholars.<\/p>\n
But as a confirmed Trump loyalist holding the government’s top law-enforcement office, her comments take on greater significance.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the interview with Fox’s Shannon Bream, Bondi spoke out against the broad legal pushback the still-young Trump administration has faced as he moves aggressively to put his policies in place.<\/p>\n
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“We’ve had over 170 lawsuits brought against us — that should be the constitutional crisis right there,” she said. “We’ll continue to fight” those cases as they move through the courts.<\/p>\n
Bondi defended the administration’s decision to seek the death penalty in the case of Luigi Mangione, who is charged with the December 4, 2024 killing on a New York sidewalk of health insurance executive Brian Thompson.<\/p>\n
“The president’s directive was very clear: we are to seek the death penalty when possible,” she said. “If there was ever a death case, this is one.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bondi exulted in one recent legal victory, when the Supreme Court on Friday sided with the administration in a dispute over the Education Department’s move to freeze so-called DEI grants — involving efforts to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
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The right-leaning court allowed the administration to continue freezing $64 million intended for teacher training and professional development.<\/p>\n
“We just got a great win,” Bondi said, “and we’ll continue to fight every day.”<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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